SKINFLICK
arisandmartha

Dance performance

SKINFLICK reflects the consumerist, pornographic culture of our time. It explores the complex and triply reciprocal relationship between object, observer, and screen. In SKINFLICK, we expanded our study of visual mechanisms, examining the repetitive production of imagery to shift focus from representation and content to the dynamics of consumption. Consumption itself, of course, is a highly ambiguous act: it can excite, but only briefly, it can satisfy, yet it also fuels a lingering boredom that drives the viewer to seek it repeatedly — a self-consuming cycle of embodied, acquired identities and layered interpretations.

What does it mean to inhabit one’s own body while simultaneously observing it from afar?

CREDITS
Concept: arisandmartha | Aris Papadopoulos & Martha Pasakopoulou
Artistic Collaborator: Anastasios Koukoutas
Material development & Performance: Christina Karagianni, Aris Papadopoulos, Martha Pasakopoulou
Sound Editing, design/ Composition: Jeph Vanger
Lighting Design: Eliza Alexandropoulou
Costume & Objects: Pierre Magendie
Video Score: arisandmartha
Photography: Myrto Apostolidou
Camera / Video Editing/ Trailer: Gabriella Gerolemou | Ivan Ziogas
Production: arisandmartha

Duration: 37΄

ticket prices: 12 normal, 10 reduced*
* Students / Holders of Unemployment Card & Multi – child family Card & European Youth Card & Culture Card (Ministry of Culture) / Disabled People

The production of SKINFLICK was financially supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture (2023-24).
The research for SKINFLICK was supported by Onassis AiR, Athens.
The international tour of SKINFLICK is financially supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture (2024-25).

TRAILER LINK: https://vimeo.com/990919411

arisandmartha is a creative duo based in Athens, Greece, formed by Aris Papadopoulos and Martha Pasakopoulou. Their work blends staged and site-specific dance performances, combining movement, text, and conceptual ideas to explore identity, togetherness, body-as-archive, and ritualistic practices. Known for their use of rhythm, absurd imagery, and re-enactments, they craft unique live experiences. Since 2016, they have created works like SKINFLICK (2024) and ALL THAT MATTER (2021-22), earning recognition as Aerowaves 2018 Artists with touching.just. Their performances have been featured at festivals, including the Athens & Epidaurus Festival, Kalamata International Dance Festival, Zürcher Theater Spektakel and other touring venues in Europe. Both are Stavros Niarchos Foundation ARTWORKS Fellows, with Aris also an Onassis AiR Fellow (2020).
https://arisandmartha.org/skinflick/